The town of Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, has entered a 64-day period of polar night, with its last sunrise occurring on November 18. This phenomenon, caused by the Earth's tilt ...

saw their last sunrise for two months on Monday. The sun set at 1:27 p.m. local time on Monday and won't rise again until ...

Utqiagvik, Alaska — formerly known as Barrow — won’t see the sun rise for 64 days. The nation’s northernmost town — Utqiagvik, Alaska — is about to descend into months of darkness. Think of it this ...

The Inuvik sunrise festival in the Northwest Territories in Canada marks the return of the sun after more than 30 days of polar nights and no official sunrise. A polar night, a phenomenon when the ...

The darkness also fosters the development of the stratospheric polar vortex ... At the North and South poles, there is only one sunrise and one sunset per year. The sun rises on the spring ...